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@cwebber I know you know what this means. tnx

Dan Connolly

@joeyh @cwebber I want to love git-annex, but I screwed up when I tried it once or twice.

Maybe this is a case where my knowledge gap is so big that videos would help?

Do you know of any off-hand?

I suppose I should look for myself...

@dckc I've thought about recording such a video or doing a blogpost but hard to find time for it, @joeyh might have more to say

@cwebber @dckc I think there is a big lack of videos of the sort "here's how I use git-annex in this specific circumstance, in case you were wanting to do the same kind of thing".

Fields where examples like that have built up tend to have a lot more git-annex users. Neuroscience for one. When I listen to neuroscientists talking about how to use git-annex I barely understand them half the time though. ;-)

I collect videos at git-annex.branchable.com/video and there are a few general presentations there, I recommend the ones done by other people than me.

git-annex.branchable.comvideos

@joeyh @cwebber That's exactly it.

git-annex is sort of a storage system builder's kit. I want to know that there's a community of people using it with the same patterns I am.

I (want to) manage confidentiality vs. availability using commons, mass-media, and family-media. Should those be separate repos? Or use metadata to separate them? hard to say.

madmode.com/2011/04/closing-mu

www.madmode.comMadMode: Closing music sharing loops with Amazon Cloud Player and iTunes home sharing | HomeMadMode by Dan Connolly

@joeyh @cwebber Oh... and don't get distracted by the Amazon music endorsement. Of course, that service has gone poof.

This Christmas, my wish was/is that my wife and kids would choose or or whatever from artists for me to buy for them and for us to enjoy together.

The budget is: up to whatever we spend on evil streaming subscriptions, a la madmode.com/2014/aaronsw-match

www.madmode.comMadMode: The Aaron Swartz Movie Match Pledge | HomeMadMode by Dan Connolly

@joeyh @cwebber I'm trying it out and really struggling.

It took me about 4 tries on each end to set up repositories on each of 2 machines. I kept getting ~/annex/annex and stuff.

Then `git annex add FOO` did nothing. After some flailing, I realized I had already added FOO and all its cousins somehow. I have no idea how to undo that.

@joeyh @cwebber I think I'm over the hump on learning git-annex now!

addurl - ooh! it's a web archiving tool!

and the list goes on and on.